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[Verityn]

I do remember NPC's charming people. I'm guessing that's not a thing on p1999 at all? One of the scariest newbie moments I had in EQ was when the hag in unrest charned a level 40 barbarian warrior in full plate. whenever the hag spawned everyone would go to the zone enterance. Also some npc in Freeport used to charm people though I think that was a bug since it cast through the walls. My friend had just started playing and thee I was charmed and killing him. It took him awhile to stop being mad at me.

[Fammaden]

Originally Posted by Verityn [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I do remember NPC's charming people. I'm guessing that's not a thing on p1999 at all?

I've definitely been charmed in Mistmoore on more than one character more than one time and seen it happen to others.

[nyclin]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

NPC casters on P99 do not use the same spell lists as live mobs did. Before I got used to it I remember being shocked by some of the things NPCs cast on me when I first started playing here. I could submit evidence, but this has got to be a long-known issue. As such, it probably is too hard to fix ... but I just wanted to mention it anyway in case there's any chance it can be fixed.

https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...d.php?t=122674

caster NPCs shouldn't be casting at their current school level, it should be 2 levels below (e.g. lvl 49 wizard mob casts spells up to level 39)

the fix doesn't seem particularly hard, the main issue is finding the evidence to prove this. there's some anecdotes like posts on the Safehouse mentioning how easy casters in Sebilis are to solo, but very little in the way of "X mob casts spells A, B, C"

[loramin]

Originally Posted by nyclin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...d.php?t=122674

caster NPCs shouldn't be casting at their current school level, it should be 2 levels below (e.g. lvl 49 wizard mob casts spells up to level 39)

the fix doesn't seem particularly hard, the main issue is finding the evidence to prove this. there's some anecdotes like posts on the Safehouse mentioning how easy casters in Sebilis are to solo, but very little in the way of "X mob casts spells A, B, C"

Thank you, that thread is exactly the issue I was trying to articulate!

Unfortunately I was dead wrong: it is a research issue, not a technical one. And if all the great classicQuesters in that thread haven't found good evidence yet ... well, I don't have great hope that anyone else will turn up anything new before Green [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Maybe a dev will revisit the issue, see that good evidence is lacking, and decide to value the "hearsay" reports higher?

[DMN]

Originally Posted by nyclin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...d.php?t=122674

caster NPCs shouldn't be casting at their current school level, it should be 2 levels below (e.g. lvl 49 wizard mob casts spells up to level 39)

the fix doesn't seem particularly hard, the main issue is finding the evidence to prove this. there's some anecdotes like posts on the Safehouse mentioning how easy casters in Sebilis are to solo, but very little in the way of "X mob casts spells A, B, C"

I can tell you with 100% certainty that the tactician in lower guk would cast gravity flux.

[nilbog]

Originally Posted by Dolalin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

@ Nilbog:

Solusek B dungeon should not go live until May, 1999 patch era.



http://web.archive.org/web/200102081...pdate_0599.htm

More in this newsgroup thread:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt....M/gd60nhaHRscJ

Isn't this saying that it wasn't a new zone, just renamed solusek b -> Nagafen's Lair?

May 20, 1999: The following announcement was posted on EQ Vault. I thought it was worth posting here: "New Zone - Kelleton informed me that Aradune (aka Brad McQuaid) posted a system wide message last night around 1:30 EST informing players that a new zone called Nagafen's Layer is now operational."

Then one day later:

May 21, 1999: The gamestats server has experienced some problems this morning due to [you won't believe this] problems upstream with UUNet [arrrgh that name sends shivers down my spine]. So if you are having problems with your connection, it should be resolved soon. Thanks to you who pointed out that the EQ Vault announcement about a new zone was wrong. It in fact is the old Solusek B dungeon, which has been renamed Nagafen's Lair. I have updated the Antonica Zone descriptions to reflect this. This is a very high level dungeon. The following sections have been updated: Back Slot Items ; Neck Slot Items ; Erudin Quests ; Qeynos Quests ; Highhold Quests ; South Ro Quests ; Ocean of Tears Quests ; Kaladim Quests ; Faction ; Alchemy Recipes ; General Links ; Antonica Zone Descriptions

[Dolalin]

@Nilbog: The announcement was the formal opening of Solusek B on live, which had also been renamed from Solusek B to Nagafen's Lair.

The confusion arose because people thought it was a brand new dungeon, ie a brand new zone file, but they had just revamped and opened the existing dungeon from back in beta.

Edit: this newsgroup thread reads a bit better

https://groups.google.com/forum/?nom...M/-1TT5ZvX1SMJ

Edit 2: Looks like they revamped SolA and SolB all in one go actually. Maybe I misread.

Edit 3: there is a post there saying that it was a zone revamp and that SolB had been active a few weeks before. So I'm wrong about this I think. SolB had already been open, just in a different state. Mea culpa.

[Lojik]

Originally Posted by DMN [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I can tell you with 100% certainty that the tactician in lower guk would cast gravity flux.

Didn't lvl 49 guk wizards cast ice comet too? I'm not sure this rule applied everywhere. Pretty sure most of these spawns were sub 49 though, but the ones that were 49...watch out!

[Jigen]

Originally Posted by Verityn [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I do remember NPC's charming people. I'm guessing that's not a thing on p1999 at all? One of the scariest newbie moments I had in EQ was when the hag in unrest charned a level 40 barbarian warrior in full plate. whenever the hag spawned everyone would go to the zone enterance. Also some npc in Freeport used to charm people though I think that was a bug since it cast through the walls. My friend had just started playing and thee I was charmed and killing him. It took him awhile to stop being mad at me.

Charming was extra terrible for me, because literally every time I was charmed in the day my dial up connection would drop too. I've always wondered why this was. Did the server suddenly start sending me too many packets to update my location frequently, effectively DOS'ing me? Was there something in the packets that looked like a disconnect signal? I'd love a time machine and some network gods to explain that one to me.

Made being charmed all the more terrifying. I guess it's like 'blacking out' once you're under their control.

[Dolalin]

@Nilbog:

Concordance of Research quests (the Lightstone and GLS turn-in quests at the various Gypsies) shouldn't be in game until July 1999:

https://groups.yahoo.com/api/v1/grou...h/messages/696

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Message ID: 696
Date: Thu Jul 29 12:14:43 BST 1999
Author: Jon Carlstrom
Subject: Practice Research Bugged?


Has anyone successfully attempted the new practice research implemented
in yesterdays patch? I did the minor quests, recived the recepie book
and the new book to combine items. So I thought I'd try the simplest
runes before using the rarer components in the harder runes.
Tried Rune 1: Lapiz Lazuli, Bat Wing, Bone Chip. Items fail to combine
in these quantities.
Ah, it mentioned needing a quill and parchment in the book. I buy both
at guild, and try the same. Items fail to combine in these quantities.

So I try the next: Turquoise, Fire Beetle Eye, and a Rusty slashing
weapon. Same fail. Added quill and parchment, still same failure. Tried
many different slashing weapons. All fail.

So is it buggy, and did Verant really add this whole new piece to
research without testing it in the slightest, even to attempt to make
one item? I have trouble believing even Verant would do that...so am I
missing something obvious? Would be interested to hear what kind of
success others have had with this new addition.

Quil of Bertoxxulous

The two quests to be disabled until this era:

https://wiki.project1999.com/Evil_Research
https://wiki.project1999.com/Research_Aid